Broth
מָרָקStrong’s H4839maraq (ma-raq)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maraq is the Hebrew word usually translated “broth” and “broth of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.”
Meaning
- Broth, juice cooked from meat
How it's translated
- and the broth 1
- the broth 1
- and broth of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 6:20And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
- Isaiah 65:4Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Hebrew dictionary
מָרָק maraq · broth
broth, juice cooked from meat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “broth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BROTH, noun
brauth.
- Liquor in which flesh is boiled and macerated, usually with rice and herbs, or some ingredient to give it a better relish.
- In America, the word is often applied to foaming water, and especially to a mixture of snow and water in the highways which is called snow-broth.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.